view post Post 636 Can a text-only model + a vision toolkit (mm-ctx) match a native vision model?We benchmarked 4 setups on 23 multimodal tasks (image, video, audio, PDF):• glm-5.2 (text-only) + mm-ctx: 88.4• gemini-3.5-flash (vision): 83• deepseek-v4-pro (text-only) + mm-ctx: 79.4• qwen3.6-35b-a3b (vision): 44.3The best text-only setup closes 89% of the gap to the top vision model.Full report: https://huggingface.co/blog/vlm-run/text-only-models-with-mm See translation